05/28/2021 8:44 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/28/2021 8:44 AM
More than
two million doses
of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus will arrive in the country next Monday, as reported last night by the Minister of Health of the Nation, Carla Vizzotti.
"We continue to add. Today they confirmed that another
2,148,600 doses
of Argentina's bilateral agreement with AstraZeneca will
arrive in the country this Monday
," the minister published last night on her Twitter account.
It is understood then, that it is the vaccine whose active principle was elaborated in Argentina.
According to Vizzotti, the flight is scheduled to land at Ezeiza airport on Monday at 7.55 am.
We keep adding.
Today they confirmed to us that this Monday another 2,148,600 doses from Argentina's bilateral agreement with AstraZeneca arrive in the country.
The flight is scheduled to land in Ezeiza at 7.55 am.
Thus we will overcome the # 17MillonesdeVacunas, which are 17 million hopes pic.twitter.com/kiAvy3aqPn
- Carla Vizzotti (@carlavizzotti) May 28, 2021
In this way, Argentina "will thus exceed
17 million vaccines
, which are 17 million hopes," Vizzotti highlighted in his publication.
"This week we received 2,785,200 doses to accelerate the strategic vaccination plan, its distribution is already underway in the 24 jurisdictions of Argentina. We continue to count. And
we
also
count on you
. Let us continue to take care of ourselves," concluded the Twitter thread.
Vizzotti and the presidential advisor Cecilia Nicolini are in Cuba, where they traveled to learn from the health authorities and researchers of that country about
the progress in
the development of the Abdala and Soberana vaccines.
Previously, the officials were in Mexico after this week Presidents Alberto Fernández and Andres Manuel López Obrador announced the start of distribution of AstraZeneca vaccines
produced in Latin America for Latin America
.
"With this joint action, we are promoting
fair and equitable access
to vaccines for our countries and the entire Region," said Vizzotti.
China dosage
The announcement of a new arrival of vaccines that Vizzotti made last night adds to the information released this Thursday by
Clarín
about the new agreement that the Argentine government reached with Sinopharm, for the country would receive in the next months
six million doses
of the formula developed by that Chinese laboratory.
This information was confirmed to this newspaper by high official sources.
Under the new agreement, the first two million doses will arrive in
June
, while the remaining four million will be received in
July
.
The Chinese laboratory will send the vaccines in a new
packaging
that will allow
two million doses to
arrive in a single flight
.
It is worth remembering that Argentina has already received
four million
applications of the Sinopharm vaccine.
With them, it was decided to complete the immunization of two million people with two doses, since until now the arrival of more doses of this vaccine was not guaranteed.
With information from Télam.
LGP
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